I am going to talk to-night for a little upon the great transformation spoken of in the text, "I make all things new;" and then upon the earnest call in the text to consider that transformation: "He that sat upon the throne said, 'Behold': attend, consider, look to it!" And it is also by the giving of the Holy Ghost, as the result of the ascension of Christ on high, that the world is made new. Also there was no more sea._ There were three thousand new creations in one day when Peter preached the gospel under the influence of the Holy Spirit. THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB new state THE NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH. the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. Faith has brought us into the possession of an indefeasible salvation; and now for the love we bear our Savior, we must obey him and become "zealous for good works." You ought to be thankful to God that he has not yet recompensed you that he has not dealt with you after your sins, nor rewarded you according to your iniquities. The tree is made new, and the fruits are new in consequence. And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. Why, himself. It is Our children's eyes sparkle when we talk of giving them a toy or a book which is called new; for our short-lived human nature loves that which has lately come, and is therefore like our own fleeting selves. but, brethren and sisters, we do not know; since the Lord saved us, there cannot be any limits as to what he can do. And cast their crowns before the throne. Revelation. Furthermore, you will say to me, "I desire to lead a new life." Persons who profess to have communications with the dead necromancers, spiritualists, and all people of that sort. SECTION 69 A world where every man would have been a priest, and every house a temple, and every garment a vestment, and every meal a sacrifice, and every place holiness to the Lord, for the tabernacle of God would have been among them, and God himself would have dwelt among them! at what Christ has done for them. trees, etc., since, as McCord notes, we will have spiritual bodies for He has come to make the world new. "Behold," says Christ I do like that word "Behold it! fellowship in the presence of God is no more. Revelation 21:8 in all English translations. III. Gratitude is its mainspring: "We love him because he first loved us." Aug. omits . Do you not also know, you servants, what is likely to happen to you as servants? He that sitteth on the throne can do for you what you cannot do for yourself; and, as he made you once, and you became marred by sin, he can new make you; for he saith. Let me just say a few words to those of you who love the Lord. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. There shall be no more fear of war, no Gog and Magog to gather together to battle, no Armageddon to be dreaded by the glorified Church of Christ, which shall be in perfect peace for ever. I wish we had more time to enter fully into this part of the subject. first dispensation of the Gospel; when the old Jewish church sta And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the We will never let you go, neither will we cease from our importunate prayers until we get an answer from the throne, and see you saved. No mother's pangs, when she brought forth a man-child, were such as those of Christ when he brought forth the new creation. Sorrow shalt cease, and tears shall be wiped away. So men may launch their divers theories, and patent their social inventions, but after they have re-shaped the society of sinners, they will leave it a sinful society still. The whole creation is travailing, all time is groaning, providence is working, grace is striving, and all for one end, the bringing forth of the new and better age. Happy discovery for us; it was the kindling of new life in us. It will be easier, a great deal, depend upon it, even for God to make you new, than to mend you; for the fact is that "the carnal mind is enmity against God," and is not reconciled to God, neither, indeed, can be; so that mending will not answer; you must be made anew. The usual introduction to a new vision (cf. So you would make a very good man by mending, if you had a new heart, and new life, and were made new all over, so that there was not a bit of the old stuff left. I liked what a brother said at the church-meeting on Monday night, when his brother was introduced to the church. "Behold, I make all things." (1 Corinthians 15:44-50) God is a spiri And (1) I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. , 5001 North Oak Trafficway There is nothing so old that he cannot make it new nothing so fixed and habitual that he cannot change it. SAW. I hear how these people of God cry 'Hallelujah!' And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. Our spiritual life is a new-born thing, the creation of the Spirit of life. He that sitteth on the throne saith, "Behold, I make all things new." Yes, we shall come to this if we are believers. HEAVEN. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him he glory and dominion for ever and ever. That is a divine word. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first Revelation 21:3. John had already said that the city was pure gold like unto clear glass; and now he says that the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. We do not always get such a combination as this here below, gold, precious and pure, yet unstained with blood, and undimmed with the oppression of the poor, diaphanous gold, as it were transparent glass.. Thus he gives power to the ministry. Revelation 21:1 . Revelation 21:5. And they will be brought in, I feel assured; but, oh, that it may be this year! heavenly. Revelation 21:17. Throne the earth and the heaven flee away. The fearful are those who, through cowardice, have not overcome (cf. He that rightly understands the difference between the two covenants has the foundation of sound theology laid in his mind. And he is considered a clever man, a patriot, a benefactor of his own nation, who, by dint of genius, can discover some new way of destroying his fellow creatures. New desires are felt to which we were strangers in our former state. It's good news for the sky above and the Earth below. Anything new has at least one attraction. Rev 66:22. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. last time, and we behold the new universe. Amen. Revelation i. There are certain things which are already so truly new, that to change them for anything else would be to lose old gold for new dross. Here we do not find any mediatorial kingdom. I should be very much surprised if some of you that come here, time after time, are not converted. Revelation 21:1. (Revelation 21:1) Th _aor. It were hard to say which has the stronger power over the human mind antiquity or novelty. THE first saints could never be long without speaking of their Lord and Saviour. The wilderness of destruction lies before you. The Lord answer our prayer now, for Jesus' sake, for we seek the salvation of every hearer and every reader of this sermon. Blessed book; it is just the same, but oh, how differently do we read it. Astronomers tell us that, within living memory, several starry worlds have burnt out, and vanished out of sight. It has its hand upon the throat of the old sinful nature, and it shall eventually trample it like dust beneath its feet. first earth are pass Strauss-' Comments MEN GENERALLY venerate antiquity. 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. But what changes will have to be wrought in us before we are fit to be put among these precious jewels! Grace works a very deep, striking, and lasting change. You will not be at all tired of your godly work, but love it better than ever. It would be a wonderful thing if Niagara when it is in its full descent should be made to leap upwards, and the St. Lawrence and the sea should begin to climb backward to the lakes. Revelation 20. It cannot be; his loving heart is too much bound up in his own adopted ones. , DISCOURSE: 2529 "Behold, I make." I say this with very great shame shame for myself, and shame for the brother who led me to make the confession. see what we have done." Turning to our second point, I want you to: He says, "Behold I make all things new." Revelation 21:1. As for myself, my consciousness of being a new man in Christ Jesus is often as sharp and crisp as my consciousness of being in existence. The apostle Peter has told us that this w. - But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death; but for the fearful, etc.The construction is changed in the middle of the verse. Astronomers tell us that, within living memory, several starry worlds have burnt out, and vanished out of sight. That is the death that never dies, the death which is far more to be dreaded than the death of the body. Then another with great tenderness prayed for his children. "I make all things new," begins with the bringing in of a better hope by virtue of a better covenant. Hope springs up at the first sound of such words as these from the lips of our risen and reigning Lord: "Behold, I make all things new." He can cause your business to prosper; or, if he does not do that, he can strengthen your back to bear the burden of your daily cross. Renewal must begin with the heart. Who is the great I? wanting REVELATIONNOTE ON REVELATION 21:1 The destruction of death will Hence we read of being "justified by faith," and being made acceptable to God by faith. Getting near to Christ, you will partake in his joy, and that joy shall be your strength, your freshness, the newness of your life. I love thee, O my Saviour, because on the cross thou didst bear shame, and spitting, and manifold disgrace for me. Rev 21:1-8 We have here a more general account of the happiness of the church of God in the future state, by which it seems most safe to understand the heavenly state. The Thus far I have said that the object of Christ was to make a new world, and he began by making a new covenant. Revelation 21:1 iv. observed it before, that Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the REVELATION CHAPTER 21 REVELATION 21:1 A new heaven and a new earth. Oh you who are now children, you were servants a little while ago! Bibliographical Information Spurgeon, Charle Haddon. You, too, will be driven out of your religious profession and your period of probation, and where will you go? Listen! Do you not agree with our prayers? Amen. Revelation xxii. 7. 4, 5. II. While God's wrath for sin is yet unspent, the world cannot be new; but when that wrath on account of sin is all poured upon the head of the great Substitute, then the world stands in a new relation to God, and it can be a new world. We dare not say that we have kept the ten commands from our youth up; on the contrary, we are compelled by our consciences to confess that in spirit and in heart, if not in act, we have continually broken the law of God; and we are therefore under sin and condemnation, and there is no hope for us by the works of the law. A better thing still is never to leave him, but to stand for ever at the cross-foot delighting yourself in his all-sufficient sacrifice. Ay!"] O dear hearts, there is no absolute necessity that you should always go downward in evil till you descend to hell. ", I should not wonder, therefore, if the mere words of my text should sound like a pleasant song in your ears; but I am thankful that their deeper meaning is even more joyful. 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the Our wretched, formal prayers, if we did offer them what a mockery they were! but these joys only come from him. We were like Ezekiel's deserted infant unswaddled and unwashed, left in our pollution to die; but the Son of God passed by and saw us in the greatness of our ruin. I do not know that I admire brethren for calling out in the service as our friends did just now; but I certainly do not blame them. Oh that you would yield on this first night of the year to him who can make new creatures of you. I would that there might be some new creations tonight, that that divine heavenly Spirit would come into some of your souls, and drop there that vital spark of heavenly flame which shall never be quenched, but shall burn brightly in heaven for ever. Now, we are beyond the thousand years. It is coming. My family cause me great anxiety. We have seen many transformed into new parents and new children. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. "Ay, but it is not," says one; and I am sorry I cannot contradict him. Revelation 21:5 . Revelation 21:22. earth_ succeed in the room of the _first heaven and first earth,_ The greater the sinner, the greater the joy to loving believers when they see him saved. "Behold I make all things new" is a mysterious voice from the broken heart of a dying Saviour. He beholds Christ upon By making new men he makes a new society, which society he calls his "Church". And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. CHAPTER 21 Briefly, then, here is one of the grandest truths that ever fell even from the lips of Jesus: "Behold, I make all things new." [A loud voice, "Ay! I trust you will accept this most gracious and suitable way of salvation. Some of you have heart-breakers at home: the Lord break their hearts. "Behold," says Christ, "I make all things new." But when the Lord himself sets up a light, and calls us to pause, and look, we cannot help beholding. Contents: The seven new things of the Kingdom age earth, peoples, This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. It is most glorious to God and safe to you: do not neglect so great salvation. (Isaiah 65:17 ). Why do we sing, "Dear Lord, and shall we ever live At this poor dying rate?". C.H. Revelation 21:15. Revelation 21:8. If our calendar suggests some dismal memories in the past, our calculation forestalls some happier prospects in the future. Truly, truly, this seems to me to be a glorious purpose. Revelation 20:4, Revelation 20:11, in a succession. , It pleased the Father to bruise him; he hath put him to grief; he hath made his soul to be an offering for sin." Then, through his Spirit, he goes on to make new men under the new covenant, and you will see that by this means he makes a new society. A. John now turns his attention in a new direction. I seem to lose the freshness of it; and especially by about Saturday I get I hardly know where; but," he added, "as for you, whenever I hear you, you seem to be all alive and full of fresh energy." There has also been wrought in us by the work of the Holy Spirit a new life, with all the new feelings, and new desires, and new works which go therewith. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. We ought never to forget this bottom of everything, this making of all things new by the fashioning of a new covenant, so that we have come out from under the bondage of the law and the ruin of the fall, and we have entered upon the liberty of Christ, into acceptance with God, and into the boundless joy of being saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation, so that we "shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end." It is only in imagination that there is any close of one year and beginning of another; and yet it has most fitly all the force of a great fact. See how I took the man when he was up to his neck in sin, and made him preach the gospel. He hath no form nor comeliness, and when you shall see him there is no beauty in him that you should desire him. The holy city appears. The sea now cannot rest nor be quiet, but all shall be calm and tranquil in the new heaven and the new earth. "Ah, my dear brother," I said, "that is because you do not know much about me." You must trace the birth of the new creation up to the grave of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the place where the cross stood, and where his body lay. Now breathe a silent prayer, dear brother, dear sister, to him who makes all things new. Sometimes all this worry is mere discontent; and when the child of God gets right himself these imaginary troubles vanish like the mist of the morning; but when they are real troubles, God can as easily change your condition, dear child of God, as he can turn his hand. The Lord can work a radical change in you. Revelation 19:1; _Revelation 21:1 and Revelation 22:1_ welcome sight, for this old earth is wearing out. Behold I make all things new." 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liarsthey will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. All his works deserve study: "The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein." And all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. I feel this within me: do not you? Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. 65:17, and is derived from the belief that the present world w (_a)_ THE DISTANT VIEW OF THE CITY. Read full chapter. Come and lay yourself down at his feet, and ask him to make you new; I beseech you, do this at once! The Judgment is over. THE SEVENTH VISION: OF THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM. What a transformation grace makes in all things within our little world! After a few months a vigorous young Christian will begin to cool down; and those who have been long in the ways of God find that final perseverance must be a miracle if ever it is to be accomplished, for naturally they tire and faint. I wanted to shout badly on Sunday morning; but as everybody else was quiet, I held my tongue." What a range of creating power is here! chronological course of the prophecy. The Lord can so change us that we shall scarcely know ourselves: I mean he can thus change you who now despair of yourselves. Dogs would scarce tear each other as men do. Listen, "Behold, I make." Nobody can tell which spoke of a wheel moves first; it moves as a whole. _ (G565) We are equally ashamed of our hates and our prejudices: but these have vanished once for all. to, as here, in . And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth: for the first heaven and the Now St. From the empty tomb, as he rises, I hear it come in silvery notes, "Behold I make all things new." You must be dead and buried with Christ, and risen again in him; and then all will be well, for he will have made all things new. Ay, and angels, hovering over this fair world, would oft have heard the strain of joy breaking the silence of midnight, as glad and pure hearts beheld the eyes of the Creator beaming down upon them from the stars which stud the vault of heaven. WHATEVER the saints are , "The Marriage of the Lamb" This is the world of weeping, but it passes away. With this verse begins the closing passage of the book of God: the revelation of the things beyond the end. Revelation App-133. The Blue Letter Bible team has added a wide selection of . Another application of this truth will be this: "Oh," says one, "I do not know what to make of myself. Oh! he 1-8 The new heaven and the new earth will not be separate from each radically changed. "Ah," said one, when she was converted, "either the world is greatly altered, or else I am." "By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight"; but we are "justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." God grant us to drink of the eternal founts, that we may for ever overflow. When God looks at it, I wonder he does not stamp it out, just as you and I do a spark of coal that flies upon our carpet from the fire. In trying to bring out the thoughts contained in this exclamation from the throne, from the Emperor of the Universe, from the court of the King of Kings, we shall first speak, very briefly, of the new creation; secondly, we should bid you adore the great Regenerator; and, in the third place, we shall ask you to behold with attention the fact before you, with a view of receiving benefit from it. I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH, &C. _A new heaven and a new He can bring your children to bow at the family altar, and to rejoice with you in Christ. Not Peter only, but the whole of the twelve apostles shall have their names in the foundations of that holy city. Praise is our ever new delight; let us baptize the new year into a sea of it. THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH Devils could not be worse than men when their passions are let loose. lead to the renewal of the entire created order. How ingeniously they bring him in! _And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea._. "Commentary on Revelation 8". But, even if you do not, we shall pray for you; and we were sure that you opposed our intercessions, and were even angry with them, we should pray all the more, for we mean to have you won for Jesus, by the grace of God, and you may as well come soon as late. Well, now, dear friends, why do you and I ever get stale and flat? The Holy Spirit, though the old nature is still there, has been pleased to put within them a new nature. He whispered into the ears of a mother Eve; she fell, and we fell with her, and what a world this now is! Once, the Lord might have said, Behold, I make all things; but now he says, Behold, I make all things new. Glory be unto the great Creator! Revelation 8 Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible Genesis Intro Revelation Genesis Intro Genesis Intro Revelation Genesis Intro Copyright Statement These files are public domain. God's Church glorified lieth open to all quarters of the infinitude of space, it is no prison-house of souls that dare not go beyond its borders, but a many-gated city, so that the blessed spirits there can fly whithersoever they will. Revelation 20:11. Ver. heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. Oh, what a blessing it would be for some workers if God would make them strong! And he said unto me, It is done. "Because I asked the Lord to convert him, and I kept on praying that he might be converted; and I should have been very much surprised if he had not been." The first heaven is passed That, also, is divine. It is filled with a divine enthusiasm which it once rejected as fanatical. 1. 21. Wherever the gospel is preached, the Spirit is present in that gospel, and he gives faith to men, gives life to men, and so they are made new, and the new-making thus goes on. My business is a thorny maze. New principles stir the new nature which God has given. They have been as deeply sunken in sin, and as hardened by habit as ever thou canst be, and they thought themselves given up to despair, as thou thinkest thyself to be; yet the Spirit of God carried out the will of the Lord Christ, and made them new. God has breathed into them a new life. The last year had become wheezy, croaking, and decrepit, in its old age; and we lay it asleep with a psalm of judgment and mercy. I want, then, to drop into your ear and may the Spirit of God drop into your heart this word, you may be born again. Revelation 21:7-8. The New Heaven and Earth. While men will frequently dote upon the old, they are most easily dazzled by the new. THE NEW JERUSALEM _God dwells with men; the happy state of his followers_, 3-7. How it can turn us! known as the Book of beginnings. Of Jesus the demand was made and he met it. I have known the Lord on a sudden to turn darkness into light, and take away the sackcloth and the ashes from his dear children, for "he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men." _An angel shows J AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH - Such a heaven and earth that Blessed be his name. The regeneration of his people, their new birth, is a foretaste of what is yet to happen to this whole world of ours. What a change in our joys! what a blessed world it would have been! I earnestly recommend you attentively to consider my text. See Matthew 9:17. By grace every believer is brought into a new relationship with God. We were under the old covenant, and our first father and federal head, Adam, had broken that covenant, and we were ruined by his fatal breach. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. When we are made sons do we work for wages? And here is our strength for rising to a nobler state of mind, "Behold I make all things new." Lord, let us enter into this new universe of thine. It is coming. REVELATION 21:2 The new Jerusalem. Oh that they could get up to the high mountains, and be strong! first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. One of the first prayers that I heard to-night in the prayer-meeting was by a dear brother that God would save his relatives. This vision relates to a But we have tasted these precious things, and unto God we will lift up our loudest song for ever and for ever. There is now a contending force within them the old carnal nature inclining to evil, and the new God-given nature panting after perfection. For this reason the gospel sets before us another way, and says, "It is of faith, that it might be by grace." It is his high prerogative to make and to destroy. 21. How ingeniously they bring him in! The doctrine of the new heaven and the new earth goes back to Isaiah Toward a And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. 10. I forget a great many of you who are saved; but I always pray for them. We repent because we believe, and believe while we repent. Revelation 21:1. For which I thought he was a wise man: but yet I do not wonder if men who have tasted of the grace of God, and feel that the Lord has done great things for them, whereof they are glad, do feel like crying out for joy. It was a fair world, full of everything that was lovely, beautiful, happy, holy. Child as I was, and under holy restraint as I was, so as to be kept from gross outward sin, I had a powerful inner nature which would not brook control. Why should some of you be living at a penny a day and starving yourselves, when your Father would give you to live like princes of the blood royal if you would but trust him? ]. Our path to eternal glory is the road of faith, "The just shall live by faith." I will pray, "Lord, make my children new." Yet God could do even that; and so he can reverse the course of your fallen nature, and make you act as a new man. We will not go on with that lamentation, but we will hear the cheering word, "Behold, I make all things new." We are like poor blocks of common-looking stone, but we do not know what we shall be like when we have been cut and polished on the great Lapidary's wheel. We are "accepted in the Beloved" when we believe in him whom God has set forth to be our righteousness. God grant you may! There shall be no injustice towards the poor; there shall be no envying of the rich; there shall be no law to make men slaves; there shall be no power to oppress, because there shall be no will to do it. THE NEW JERUSALEM. Yet, as I have already said, there has been so much evil about ourselves and our old nature, so much sin about our life and the old past, so much mischief about our surroundings and the old temptations, that we are not distressed by the belief that old things are passing away. At any rate, it is new, and we are encouraged to couple with it the idea of happiness, as we say one to another, "I wish you a happy New Year. his Throne. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." John in Vision is led to see the New Jerusalem. When he says, "Let there be holiness, let there be love, let there be truth," the principalities and powers of evil withstand him, and say, "There shall not be holiness, there shall be sin; there shall not be love, there shall be hate; there shall not be truth, there shall be error; there shall not be the worship of God, there shall be the worship of stocks and stones; men shall bow down before idols which their own hands have made." And then the victors on either side in the fray, return, and beat the drums, and sound the trumpets, and say, "Glory! I want to say to such, if you have been all your lifetime in bondage, you need not remain there any longer; for there is in Jesus the power to make all things new, and to lift you into new delights. Why, upon cutting each other's throats, upon tearing out each other's bleeding hearts, and wading up to their knees in each other's gore, till the ditches be full of blood, horses and men all mingled, and left to be food for dogs and for carrion crows. The Lord, in answer to believing prayer, and especially in answer to a full resignation to his will is able to make all providential surroundings new for you. It will seem to be a dead lift to you; but it is within the power of that pierced hand to lift you right out of doubt, and fear, and despondency, and spiritual lethargy, and weakness, and just to make you now, from this day forward, "strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might."
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